Testing drills for Mars and doomsday film condemned

Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:
g Message - How did the SETI program come to be? For a timeline of the program’s history, see article.
g Cosmicus - NASA’s IceBite team will spend six weeks studying a place on Earth that resembles the Phoenix landing site on Mars. The place: a mile above sea level in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys. The ultimate goal: to test ice-penetrating drills for a future mission to the Martian polar north. See article.
g Learning - A NASA scientist has condemned the doomsday film "2012" and launched a web site, "Ask an Astrobiologist," to quell the fears it is raising. See article.
g Aftermath - The Catholic church is comfortable with the idea of aliens. Good news for those who believe in compassion for extra-terrestrials. See article.

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